Microsoft unveils Concept Graph: 'It's time AI learned some common sense'

Concept Graph contains more than 5.4 million concepts, which Microsoft says is far more than existing knowledge bases. Microsoft has released Concept Graph, a database of words linked to millions of concepts that it's using to help machines grasp meanings the way humans can when interpreting a sentence. As Microsoft notes, one thing that separates humans from machines when it comes to understanding a sentence is that humans have knowledge about concepts, such as dates, people, and animals. Humans also have the ability to conceptualize things, such as "cats are animals", or that a birthday is a significant date for a person. Machines don't have these qualities and that's why a computer could take the phrase "animals other than dogs such as cats" to mean that "cats are animals" or that "cats are dogs".